Messier 48
A few orange and blue stars highlight the cluster Messier 48, in Hydra, the water snake. Charles Messier discovered the…
Cosmic Bar
Several forms of alcohol, including ethyl alcohol, were discovered a half century ago in Sagittarius B2, a giant cloud of…
Lunar Eclipse from Moon
This illustration depicts a total lunar eclipse as viewed from the Moon. Sunlight filtering through Earth’s atmosphere gives the lunar…
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Lunar Lander Flip-Flop
The Athena lunar lander snapped this picture of its landing legs with Earth in the background shortly before it was…
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Blue Ghost 1
Blue Ghost-1 snapped this image of Earth, the lunar surface, and its own shadow shortly after landing, in the Sea…
Lunar Ghost
Blue Ghost 1, a lunar lander designed and built by Firefly Aerospace, snapped this selfie with the Moon and Sun…
NGC 3242 Ghost of Jupiter
NGC 3242, the Ghost of Jupiter, glows brightly in this Hubble Space Telescope image. The nebula is the last remnant…
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Kilonova
Two neutron stars merge to produce a kilonova in this artist’s concept. The merger of such ultra-dense dead stars creates…
Spectrum Regulus
This diagram shows the spectrum of Regulus and similar stars. A spectrum spreads a star’s light into its individual wavelengths…
Dusty Infant
This image from James Webb Space Telescope shows the birth throes of a star. Known as HH30, it is a…